Where Kaiser Is Supreme.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 11, 1913:
His Power as Commander of Germany's Armed Forces Absolute.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, May 10.— While as to ordinary affairs the Kaiser is subject to the law in the same manner as his humblest subject, there is one department in which his power is practically absolute — his power as Commander in Chief of the Empire's armed forces.
    His supremacy in this regard has just been reaffirmed by a judgment of the Kammergericht affirming the judgment of a provincial court in an action brought to protect a patent right.
    Eight years ago the Kaiser issued an order directing the introduction of sabre carriers attached to cavalry saddles. A Berlin inventor declared the sabre carriers to be an infringement of his patent, and that they could not be used without his permission, and he brought an action for damages and an injunction against the carrying out of the imperial order.
    A provincial court found against him, and the Kammergericht has affirmed this judgment. The Appellate Court declared that, irrespective of whether the patent be infringed or not, the plaintiff has no standing and that the Kaiser in issuing any order concerning the equipment of the army is exercising his supreme military power, and his orders are not subject to any law, nor can any court act in derogation thereof.